XRT Installation¶
Install XRT Prerequisites on Deployment Server¶
XRT requires EPEL to install dependencies during installation process. Please use the following steps to install EPEL on your system if it hasn’t been installed.
Warning
If it’s on the XRT build server, EPEL should have been installed by xrtdeps.sh. This step can be skipped.
Steps for RHEL 9.x:
sudo subscription-manager repos --enable "codeready-builder-for-rhel-9-x86_64-rpms"
sudo yum install -y https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-9.noarch.rpm
Steps for RHEL 10.x:
sudo subscription-manager repos --enable "codeready-builder-for-rhel-10-x86_64-rpms"
sudo yum install -y https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-10.noarch.rpm
Steps for AlmaLinux 9.x/Rocky 9.x:
sudo dnf config-manager --set-enabled crb
sudo dnf install epel-release
Steps for AlmaLinux 10.x/Rocky 10.x:
sudo dnf config-manager --set-enabled crb
sudo dnf install epel-release
Install XRT Software Stack¶
After XRT installation packages (DEB or RPM) are downloaded from Xilinx website or built from source, please install it with the following command
Steps for RHEL/CentOS:
sudo yum install xrt_<version>.rpm
Steps for Ubuntu:
sudo apt install xrt_<version>.deb
Steps to reinstall XRT on RHEL/CentOS:
sudo yum reinstall ./xrt_<version>.rpm
Steps to reinstall XRT on Ubuntu:
sudo apt install --reinstall ./xrt_<version>.deb
Starting with 2026.1 XRT comes with separate deployment and development packages. The deployment package is sufficient to execute a precompiled XRT application. However, the development package is required to compile an XRT application. The development package includes XRT header files, CMake package files for discovery by CMake based application build environments, and XRT dynamic/static libraries for linking.
Note
.deb style XRT development packages have a -dev suffix in the package name. .rpm style XRT development packages have a -devl suffix in the package name.
Warning
If the XRT package is built locally, please make sure ERT firmware
sched*.binis built properly during build process and installed to/lib/firmware/xilinxafter running the XRT installation command.Secure boot enabled machines: Need to configure system to properly load DKMS modules. Please follow method-1 from following page. You do not need to disable secure boot. First time DKMS compiles XRT (or any other third party) driver it will generate a MOK key that needs to be registered with BIOS.